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I'm glad her health concerns were unfounded and wish her well.

But Uptown Funk is really, really, quite crap, really. I'm usually really accommodating to different tastes as long as they are good examples of their genre but Uptown Funk is just a crap pop song. But at least their fear of the XFactor leeching all their sales lets them burn off sales in a less than full sales week. Bring on Gorgon City. I'm going to push GC and JHud. Its perfect. :wub: :heart-old:

Surely BMTH can't stay up that long. I didn't even know there was a YM@6 type fanbase for them. I'd love it if that got to number 1 though. We need that kind of variety in the chart. BMTH this week and Gorgon City next would be stunning.

Union J have a TV ad campaign for a CD single. I thought I was hearing things. Is this 1998? I'd be Ok with that if its pre-Titanic. :P Next it will be 'Get your Union J Polyphonic Ringtone!'

I'm just playing with you. I'm not shouting at you. Ipods/phones didn't exist in the 90s so there was no need for an Itunes. All Apple had was a funky looking desktop computer barely anyone bought.

iTunes didn't exist in 1997 you silly moo! ;) Cassette tapes were still on the shelves of WHSmith in 1997, there is some perspective for you

BBC News is promoing it every hour today

That is a hell of a Kworb gap between 1 and 2. Clean Bandit on 0.0781.

In the Grand tradition of Smash Hits Bastille is now the surname of the entire band

Its OK, my only problem is that the big chorus doesn't really build properly

Band Aid 2004 was quite good in terms of star power but the music business was different back then. The mainstream British industry was on the wane, bubblegum pop had just died, they didnt know what to do next. So you have artists that would be on a downward trajectory in their career up front. All the heavy hitters didn't sing, Damon Albarn produced, Thom Yorke and Paul McCartney were on instruments. Some of the faces of Band Aid 20 were the Bedingfields, the Sugababes, Jamelia, Will Young and Busted. Out of them I think only the Sugababes and Will had a hit after BandAid20 and neither were the force they were in music before it. In 2004/2005 record industries really started to push 'legit' acts like Razorlight, Snow Patrol and Keane to push back at the previous 6 years of pop music but it rarely worked and in the end American R&B just dominated and we got rubbish like Crazy Frog and Babycakes getting to number 1! This was the mid 00s in British pop music, transitional is the nicest way to describe it. (2004 has some great Rock music though, MTV2 Txt, Vids and Rock and Roll after school those were the days!)

Ah, the rush to avoid Band Aid, poor Ed. At least he got one week

That is not what I mean. Cowell wants the Christmas #1 for X Factor, has he leveraged availability of 1D? Has he said that 1D can do it but only if its brought out early freeing up the Christmas #1 for the X Factor winner Funny listening to Bob though, he's so out of touch. He thinks you can get a number 1 on 20,000 sales. Not in the singles chart in Q4 Bob.

More names from Radio 1 Jessie Ware Paloma Faith Roger Taylor fro Queen Underworld Daft Punk will be involved in the recording process in some capacity. Unclear if this is for the French version or the UK version. Germany and the US will have their own. No names for the US version yet.

Midge Ure said that they get so little from it that its not worth it, they want to encourage downloads.

It would have to be a 5 week number one to get Christmas and its a charity song with massive hype, its going to be front loaded.

There wont be a full line up until Saturday/Sunday. Waiting to see who turns up apparently.

I wonder if the release is so early because they wanted to secure 1D from Syco?

No full list announced yet, its trickling out based on Bob and Midge's interview comments

Press conference taking place now, will update post above as it happens :cheer:

Bono One Direction Emili Sande (of course) Ed Sheeran Bastille Adele (ITN says she's in, Lizo is vague and it might have just been an intro to Paul Epworth's involvement) Ellie Goulding Sam Smith Ollie Murs Chris Martin Sinead O'Conner (ew...) Foals (say The Independant) Elbow (say The Independant) David Bowie asked to record an introduction Rita Ora's participation dependant on her Voice Contract. So far... Released Monday, unlikely to be a Christmas contender in this case. Will be a US version and some European versions Song will be updated to be more 'modern' and remove references to hunger because its about ebola Cover will be designed by Tracy Emin

People thinking Leona has enough of a career these days to get on this! (look at her being announced now, my luck :P)

In Physicals in 2004. In a download era with songs 70p and the years biggest hits selling around double what they were in 2004, this could be record breaking. Or it could flop miserably. Its a coin flip, it depends on the artists.

The Saturdays- Gentleman I don't understand how The Saturdays are still going to be honest.

Is it? They don't have a great run of number ones. Their debut, a charity song, and Little Things which was actually quite good. They have an avid fanbase but it doesn't translate to singles. Are their core fanbase even allowed to use mum's credit card? There is a reason they bring out their albums for Christmas.